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Strictures on Paleys Net
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Above of pardons by name,
now of pardons by nullification. p. 44
2.
In the above case the application
is to the keeper
of the royal benignity, in this to the framer of the indictments. p.44.
3.
In the case of the virtual
pardon knowable by the
competent public hand
the number of instances
in which it is exercised,
not so in the case of the
avowed pardon. p 45.
4.
In the case of the virtual
pardon except when the
subject of table talk, the
grounds for it are discussed
with no other restraint
on publicity
than absence of physical
space & unintelligible
jargon. p 45
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But this publicity is
no check on arbitrariness,
the Judge in each case
being left at liberty to
abide by the Statute law
or to pronounce repealed
by Jurisprudential law. p. 47.
6
And with the help of the
passage from Hale about
strictness & jeofails, he
he is at liberty to seek
credit for strictness or
tenderness of life. p 48.
7
By Hale the strictness
complained of is not
strictness in violating
the laws but observing
them. p.49.
8.
And the pretence for this
strictness in violating the
laws & giving impunity
to guilt is made out of an
error of their underling. p.49.
9
If over easiness in this case
may be pleaded as an excuse
so might it for accepting
the money offered for pardon
in the instance mentioned
above. p 50.
10
This pretended tenderness
for life is not however
sanctioned by the legislature
as witness their
attempts to check it
more particularly in
the Civil branch of the
Law by Statutes of Jeofails p.51.
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Mischievous tendency of
this argument —
1. It teaches the unlearned
including the
legislature, to suppose
that nullification is
substantially good,
& bad only when applied
with over niceness. p. 52.
12.
2. When a disease exists
make no endeavour
to remove it, but let
it stay & preach at it. p. 52.
13.
3. It misleads the reformer
by pointing his
attention not to the
Judge the true creator
& fosterer of the evil, but
to other hands who
have neither will nor
power to produce it. p 53.
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4 And that in the Judges
he would find
cooperators & not opposers
& betrayers p 53.
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5. It debilitates the whole
field of law by the sanction
it affords to Judges
to depart from or adhere
to the nullification rule
at their pleasure, thus
thickening confusion &
uncertainty. p 54.
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Even where by a constant
train of decisions in defiance
of the nullification
rule, the legitimate law
is restored, the mischief
of the original infractions
still in part remains by
the example & protection it affords
other Judges to violate both
legitimate & jurisprudential
law. p.55.
1.
Possible case, that
Paley meant Judges should
be not arbitrary, but
by publicity morally
responsible. p 56.
2.
And that for this purpose
he meant the
three things necessary in
each judicial act should
be brought to view, viz.
1. the general rule.
2. the facts bringing
the case within the
rule.
3. the evidence. p 55.
3
But Paley could have
entertained no such
view, the basis of his
system being its indescribability
& in expressibility. p.57
4
Instead of the above
accompaniments of
each judicial act, what
he is content with is
"attention" & "impartiality" &c
which is not inconsistent
with corruption
& venality. p. 57
5
Per Paley. "Conviction
"to be known & believed
"to depend on quality
"& circumstances of the
"the crime."
But as above the circumstances
being indescribable
no such
knowledge can be communicated. p. 58.
6
Under Paleys system
against the abuse of pardon
the application of
such efficient checks
as publicity & evidence
being impracticable
the remedy that he
applies is the denouncing
it as a crime similar
to corruption in a judge. p. 59.
7.
But the difference is
that corruption in a
Judge is punishable
procuring pardon from
undue motives not. p. 60.
8
All inefficient checks
such as Oaths articles
&c. Paley would apply,
but not the only efficient
one. p. 60.
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